DANIA BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) – Broward County commissioners voted unanimously against a proposed warehouse construction project near a sanctuary for wild monkeys following impassioned pleas from residents and environmentalists.
“Let the record show, eight to nothing voting against this,” said Broward County Mayor Mark Bogen.
During a Broward commission meeting on Tuesday, a fight to preserve what environmentalists describe as a piece of wild Florida took a step forward as commissioners denied a Dania Beach-based company’s request to remove a section of land east of the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport from the environmentally sensitive list to make way for a warehouse project…